I am originally from Vermont. After high school I spent a year in Sweden and in 1990 I graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in International Development. After graduation I backpacked through Europe and spent a year working in the Caribbean. I eventually settled in Chicago where I waited tables for a few years, earned my Masters in Education, began teaching in the public schools and met my husband. We spent two years teaching at an International School in Honduras before we moved to Amherst in 2000. It only took one year of teaching and parenting for my husband and I to decide that I should stay home to take care the family and I have been home ever since. In 2008 I started my own quilting business - Bedscape Designs. Besides quilting, I am in the process of writing a science fiction novel and two historical novels. They are all in different stages of being "done!" I enjoy working out, hiking and gardening. When my children are older I hope the family can travel the world. In the meantime, there are many quilts to be quilted and stories to tell.

My quilt subjects are often based on the natural world and reflect my love of Vermont and the Connecticut River Valley in Western Massachusetts. Recently I’ve begun working on a series of people quilts. When quilting I view my quilts as giant canvases. The layers of cloth are like large brush strokes and the fine details are in the stitching. For me, the challenge of quilting is not in creating precise corners and straight lines, but in evoking a scene or a person with limited piecing, including whole pieces of clothing and a few well chosen colors. I’m also experimenting with whole pieces of cloth and continuous line drawings. In one series I’m using recycled sheets and thick batting to capture the essence of a sleeping form. I’m also working on a series of line sketches on muslin which are meant to be humorous, but also statements about how much humans have in common and how our lives depend on each other. I use irregular shapes, appliqué, edges and stitching to enhance my abstract designs. I piece and appliqué with a Janome machine and I quilt using a long arm HQ free motion machine.